Wokingham Choral Society

Grant Doyle joined Wokingham Choral Society at Eton School Hall on
29th March 2008 to perform Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.

February 2008

Grant Doyle Baritone

Grant Doyle studied at the Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide
and at the Royal College of Music in London and won the National Mozart
Competition for Singers 2000 held in Southport. He was a member of the
Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden from 2001
to 2003. In 2004 he returned to the Royal Opera as a guest artist to sing
Tarquinius The Rape of Lucretia, and he has since sung Harlequin Ariadne
auf Naxo s, Schaunard, Bello La Fanciulla del West , Morales
Carmen , Demetrius, and the Narrator in Dominique Le Gendre's Bird
of Night . Elsewhere he has sung Der Einäugige Die Frau ohne
Schatten and Demetrius (Teatro Real, Madrid), Schaunard (Glyndebourne
on Tour), Marcello La Bohème at the Royal Albert Hall in London,
and the title role in Don Giovanni in Baugé in France.

He has recorded the Forester The Cunning Little Vixen for an
animated film for BBC TV, with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
conducted by Kent Nagano, and created the role of Carlo in the television
film of Judith Weir's opera Armida for Channel 4 TV. He recently
completed filming of the lead role in the film of The Eternity Man a
co-production between ABC and Channel 4, and sung King Philip II in Isaac
Nathan's ballad opera Don John of Austria with the Sydney Symphony
Orchestra, also recorded.

Concerts performances include Carmina Burana with the Bournemouth
Symphony Orchestra, the RPO, the Ulster Orchestra, for Raymond Gubbay at
the Royal Albert Hall, and with the Bach Choir, Judas Maccabeus at
the King's Lynn Festival, Christus St Matthew Passion with the Kent
Chamber Choir and Christus St John Passion with the Irish Chamber
Orchestra, Fauré Requiem with the Hallé Orchestra, Janacek Glagolitic
Mass with the Philharmonia at the Brighton Festival, Brahms German
Requiem with the Philharmonia in Cheltenham and Westminster Cathedral,
Britten War Requiem with the Hertforshire Chorus and the
Huddersfield Choral Society and A Child of Our Time with the Crouch
End Festival Chorus at the Barbican.